| Secret O' Life The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time. Any fool can do it, there ain't nothing to it. Nobody knows how we got to the top of the hill. But since we're on our way down, we might as well enjoy the ride. The secret of love is in opening up your heart. It's okay to feel afraid, but don't let that stand in your way. Cause anyone knows that love is the only road. And since we're only here for a while, might as well show some style. Give us a smile. Isn't it a lovely ride? Sliding down, gliding down, try not to try too hard, it's just a lovely ride. Now the thing about time is that time isn't really real. It's just your point of view, how does it feel for you? Einstein said he could never understand it all. Planets spinning through space, the smile upon your face, welcome to the human race. Some kind of lovely ride. I'll be sliding down, I'll be gliding down. Try not to try too hard, it's just a lovely ride. Isn't it a lovely ride? Sliding down, gliding down, try not to try too hard, it's just a lovely ride. The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time. Handy Man (Blackwell/Jones) Hey girls, gather round, listen to what I'm putting down. Hey babe, I'm your handy man. I'm not the kind to use a pencil or rule, I'm handy with love and I'm no fool, I fix broken hearts, I know that I truly can. If your broken heart should need repair, then I'm the man to see. I whisper sweet things, you tell all your friends, they'll come running to me. Here is the main thing I want to say, I'm busy 24 hours a day. I fix broken hearts, I know that I truly can. Comma, comma, comma, com, com, yeah, yeah, yeah. Comma, comma, comma, com, com, yeah, yeah, yeah, they'll come running to me. Here is the main thing I want to say, I'm busy 24 hours a day. I fix broken hearts, I know that I truly can. Comma, comma, comma, com, com, yeah, yeah, yeah. Comma, comma, comma, com, com, yeah, yeah, yeah. Your Smiling Face Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself because I love you, yes, I do. And when you give me that pretty little pout, it turns me inside out. There's something about you, baby, I don't know. Isn't it amazing a man like me can feel this way, tell me how much longer, it could grow stronger every day. Oh, how much longer? I thought I was in love a couple of times before with the girl next door, but that was long before I met you, now I'm sure that I won't forget you. And I thank my lucky stars that you are who you are, and not just another lovely lady set out to break my heart. Isn't it amazing a man like me can feel this way, tell me how much longer, it could grow stronger every day. No one can tell me that I'm doing wrong today, whenever I see you smile at me. No one can tell me that I'm doing wrong today whenever I see your smiling face my way. No one can tell me that I'm doing it wrong today. No one can tell me that I'm doing it wrong today. Up On the Roof (Goffin/King) When this old world starts a getting me down, and people are just too much for me to face. I'll climb way up to the top of the stairs and all my cares just drift right into space. On the roof, it's peaceful as can be and there the world below don't bother me, no, no. So when I come home feeling tired and beat, I'll go up where the air is fresh and sweet. I'll get far away from the hustling crowd and all the rat-race noise down in the street. On the roof, that's the only place I know, look at the city, baby. Where you just have to wish to make it so, let's go up on the roof. And at night the stars, they put on a show for free. And, darling, you can share it all with me, that's what I said, keep on telling you That right smack dab in the middle of town , I found a paradise that's trouble-proof. And if this old world starts a getting you down, there's room enough for two up on the roof, up on the roof, up on the roof. Everything is all right, every thing is all right. You got the stars above and the city lights below, let’s go up on the roof. Her Town Too (Taylor/Souther/Wachtel) She's been afraid to go out. She's afraid of the knock on her door. There's always a shade of a doubt. She can never be sure. Who comes to call? Maybe the friend of a friend of a friend, anyone at all. Anything but nothing again. It used to be her town, it used to be her town, too. It used to be her town, it used to be her town, too. Seems like even her old girlfriends might be talking her down. She's got her name on the grapevine running up and down the telephone line. Talking about someone said, someone said something about, something else someone might have said about her. She always figured that they were her friends but maybe they can live without her. It used to be her town, it used to be her town, too. It used to be her town, it used to be her town, too. Well, people got used to seeing them both together. But now he's gone and life goes on, nothing lasts forever, oh no. She gets the house and the garden, he gets the boys in the band. Some of them his friends, some of them her friends, some of them understand. Lord knows that this is just a small town city, yes, and everyone can see you fall. It's got nothing to do with pity, I just wanted to give you a call. It used to be your town, it used to be my town, too. You never know till it all falls down, somebody loves you, somebody loves you. Darling, somebody still loves you. I can still remember her when it used to be her town, too. It used to be your town, it used to be my town, too… That's Why I'm Here Person to person and man to man, I'm back in touch with my long lost friend. Listen to reason and understand and think of me from way back when. He said, me and Melissa, well we fell out of love. We ran out of luck seems like lightning struck. I've been thinking of leaving but I can't raise a buck, James, I'm wondering could I borrow your truck? I said that's why I'm here. Got no other reason, that's why I'm standing before you, that's why I'm here. John's gone, found dead, he dies high, he's brown bread. Later said to have drowned in his bed. After the laughter, the wave of the dread, it hits us like a ton of lead. It seems "learn not to burn" means to turn on a dime and walk on if you're walking even if it's an uphill climb. And try to remember that working's no crime, just don't let 'em take and waste your time. That's why I'm here. This is an IOU, I reckon I owe you one now. Listen Wendy and listen Gloria, this'll be better tomorrow. Fortune and fame's such a curious game. Perfect strangers can call you by name. Pay good money to hear fire and rain again and again and again. Some are like summer coming back every year, got your baby got your blanket got your bucket of beer. I break into a grin from ear to ear and suddenly it's perfectly clear. That's why I'm here. This is the part about Kitty and Jim, he loved her and she loved him. Wake 'em up shake 'em up the middle of the night, got to tell me everything's alright. He said that's why I'm here. That's right. Only A Dream In Rio More than a distant land over a shining sea. More than the steaming green. More than the shining eyes. Well they tell me it's only a dream in Rio. Nothing could be as sweet as it seems on this very first day down. They remind me, "Son, have you so soon forgotten?� Often as not it's rotten inside and the mask soon slips away. Strange taste of a tropical fruit, romantic language of the Portuguese. Melody on a wooden flute, samba floating in the summer breeze. It's all right, you can stay asleep, you can close your eyes, you can trust the people of paradise to call your keeper and tender your good-byes. Oh, what a night, wonderful one in a million frozen fire Brazilian stars. Oh, holy southern cross, later on take me way downtown in a tin can. Can't come down from the bandstand, I'm never thrown for such a loss when they say: Quando a nossa mae acordar, andareimoz au sol. Quando a nossa mae acordar, cantara' pelos sertao. Quando a nossa mea acordar, todos os filios saberao. Todos os filios saberao, e regozilarao. Caught in the rays of the rising sun on the run from the soldier's gun. Shouting out loud from the angry crowd, the mild the wild and the hungry child. I'll tell you there's more than a dream in Rio. I was there on the very day and my heart came back alive. There was more, more than the singing voices, more than the upturned faces and more than the shining eyes. But it's more than the shining eye, more than the steaming green, more than the hidden hills, more than the concrete Christ, more than a distant land over a shining sea, more than a hungry child, more like another time. Born of a million years, more than a million years. Everyday Everyday, it's getting closer, going faster than a roller coaster. A love like yours would surely come my way. Everyday, seems a little faster, all my friends, they say go on up and ask her. A love like yours would surely come my way. Everyday it seems a little stronger, everyday it lasts a little longer. Come what may, do you ever long for true love from me? Everyday seems a little closer, going faster than a roller coaster. A love like yours would surely come my way. A love like yours would surely come my way, everyday. Everyday it seems a little stronger, everyday it lasts a little longer. Come what may, do you ever long for true love from me? Like I long from you baby. Everyday seems a little closer, going faster than a roller coaster. A love like yours would surely come my way. Song For You Far Away People around me are at it again. God only knows how they do it. One to another then back again, something keeps putting them through it. Me, I've been watching more than fifteen years and it hasn't changed a bit. People keep talking about a different line but it never seems to fit. This is a song for you far away, far away. This is a song for you far away from me. This is a song for you far away, far away. This is a song for you far away from me. Sitting here all alone is bringing it on again, I'm gone again. Sitting here thinking of you is driving it home again. This is a song for you far away, far away. This is a song for you far away from me. Open the door it takes me back, oh it takes me back. Mention your name and I'm gone again, oh I'm gone again. This is a song for you far away from me, far away from me. Never Die Young We were ring-around-the-rosy children, they were circles around the sun. Never give up, never slow down, never grow old, never ever die young. Synchronized with the rising moon, even with the evening star, they were true love written in stone, they were never alone, they were never that far apart. And we who couldn't bear to believe they might make it, we got to close our eyes. Cut up our losses into doable doses, ration our tears and sighs. Oh, you could see them on the street on a Saturday night. Everyone used to run them down. They're a little too sweet, they're a little too tight, not enough tough for this town. Couldn't touch them with a ten-foot pole, no, it didn't seem to rattle at all. They were glued together body and soul, that much more with their backs up against the wall. Oh, hold them up, hold them up, never do let them fall prey to the dust and the rust and the ruin that names us and claims us and shames us all. I guess it had to happen someday soon- wasn't nothing to hold them down. They would rise from among us like a big balloon, take the sky, forsake the ground. Oh, yes, other hearts were broken, yeah, other dreams ran dry but our golden ones sail on, sail on to another land beneath another sky. (Let other hearts be broken, let other dreams run dry) but our golden ones sail on, sail on to another land beneath another sky, beneath another sky. Hold them up, hold them up, hold them up, hold them up, hold them up, hold them up… (Hold them up, don’t let them fall). (I've Got To) Stop Thinkin' 'Bout That (Kortchmar/Taylor) I like to think about the time I met you, living with your people down in New Orleans. Mad at your mama cause she'd never let you ride in no nasty limousine. Later on the levee with the moon up above, I lost my heart and confessed my love, Oh Lucy, now, God have mercy, I've got to stop thinkin' 'bout that, somehow. Does me no damn good. One Summer night in a field of wheat, God's sweet lanterns hanging in the sky. Moving light on your tiny feet, I knew I had to love you till the day I die. They talk about Amazing Grace, it meant something when I saw your face. Oh Lucy, now, God have mercy, I've got to stop thinkin' 'bout that. Oh, Lucy, babe, can’t stop thinkin’ bout you. I think of all the little things that I never told you, I think I may get to hold you someday. It's my brain just like a man possessed, I can't do me no work, I can't get me no rest, I can't understand it baby. Don't like to think about the way it ended, I hate remembering the things that I said. I dream a dream of love so splendid, I wake up hard in an empty bed. I wonder who'll be loving you next, some fool will be writing bad checks. Oh, Lucy, God have mercy, I've got to stop thinkin' 'bout you. Copperline (Price/Taylor) Even the old folks never knew why they call it like they do. I was wondering since the age of two, down on Copperline. Copper head, copper beech, copper kettles sitting side by each. Copper coil, cup o'Georgia peach, down on Copperline. Half a mile down to Morgan Creek, leaning heavy on the end of the week. Hercules and a hog-nosed snake, down on Copperline we were down on Copperline. One Summer night on the Copperline, slip away past supper time. Wood smoke and new moonshine, down on Copperline. One time I saw my daddy dance, watched him moving like a man in a trance. He bought it back from the war in France, down onto Copperline. Branch water and tomato wine, creosote and turpentine, sour mash and new moon shine, down on Copperline, down on Copperline. First kiss ever I took, like a page from a romance book, the sky opened and the earth shook, down on Copperline, down on Copperline. Took a fall from a windy height, I only knew how to hold on tight and pray for love enough to last all night, down on Copperline. Day breaks and the boys wakes up and the dog barks and the birds sings and the sap rises and the angels sigh, yeah. I tried to go back, as if I could, all spec house and plywood. Tore up and tore up good down on Copperline. It doesn't come as a surprise to me, it doesn't touch my memory and I'm lifting up and rising free down on over Copperline. Half a mile down to Morgan Creek, I'm only living for the end of the week. Hercules and a hog-nosed snake, down on Copperline, yeah, take me down on Copperline. Oh, down on Copperline, take me down on Copperline. Shed a Little Light Let us turn our thoughts today to Martin Luther King and recognize that there are ties between us, all men and women living on the Earth. Ties of hope and love, sister and brotherhood, that we are bound together in our desire to see the world become a place in which our children can grow free and strong. We are bound together by the task that stands before us and the road that lies ahead. We are bound and we are bound. There is a feeling like the clenching of a fist There is a hunger in the center of the chest There is a passage through the darkness and the mist And though the body sleeps the heart will never rest Shed a little light, oh Lord, so that we can see, just a little light, oh Lord. Wanna stand it on up, stand it on up, oh Lord, wanna walk it on down, shed a little light, oh Lord. Can't get no light from the dollar bill, don't give me no light from a TV screen. When I open my eyes I wanna drink my fill from the well on the hill, do you know what I mean? Shed a little light, oh Lord, so that we can see, just a little light, oh Lord. Wanna stand it on up, stand it on up, oh Lord, wanna walk it on down, shed a little light, oh Lord. There is a feeling like the clenching of a fist, there is a hunger in the center of the chest. There is a passage through the darkness and the mist and though the body sleeps the heart will never rest. Oh, Let us turn our thoughts today to Martin Luther King and recognize that there are ties between us. All men and women living on the Earth, ties of hope and love, sister and brotherhood. Another Day Wake up Suzy, put your shoes on, walk with me into this light, oh, finally this morning, I'm feeling whole again, it was a hell of a night. Just to be with you by my side, just to have you near in my sight. Just to walk a while in this light, just to know that life goes on. Wake up Suzy, put your shoes on, walk with me into this light. Another night has gone, life goes on, another dawn is breaking. Turn and face the sun, one by one, the world outside is waking. Morning light has driven away all the shadows that hide your way. And night has given away to the promise of another day. Another day, another chance that we may finally find our way. Another day, the sun has begun to melt all our fears away. Another day, another day. Oh, wake up Suzy, put your shoes on, walk with me into this light. Little More Time With You (Taylor/Wonder) Gotta watchdog watching me, doggy, watching me packing my bags. He knows I'm leaving town, I can see that it's a drag. Why leave the life I love here in the great state of Maine just to ride that shining rail, just to size that ball and chain? Oh, I gotta spend just a little more time with you, that's why. Gotta spend just a little more time with you, oh oh oh. I passed on the cocaine, said bye-bye to my methadone. Put down the bottle for one more day, backing off of my tobacco jones. Still feel like a hopeless junkie, like a man who can't say no. I look back and there's that monkey, rascal won't let go, let me go. Gotta spend just a little more time with you, that’s right. Gotta spend just a little more time with you, oh oh. Gotta spend just a little more time with you, yes I do, yes I do, now. Gotta spend just a little more time with you, oh oh oh. I get high and I can't come down, I get high just hanging around. I get high, I go lost and found, I get high oh I oh I, gotta spend just a little more time with you, I’ll be walking in the light. Gotta spend just a little bit more time with you, oh oh. Gotta spend just a little more time with you, just a little more time, just a little more time. Gotta spend just a little bit more time with you, oh oh…. Enough To Be On Your Way So the sun shines on his funeral just the same as on a birth, the way it shines on everything that happens here on Earth. It rolls across the western sky and back into the sea and spends the day's last rays upon this fucked-up family, so long old pal. The last time I saw Alice, she was leaving Santa Fe with a bunch of round-eyed Buddhists in a killer Chevrolet. Said they turned her out of Texas, yeah, she burned them down back home, now she's wild with expectation on the edge of the unknown. Singing oh, it's enough to be on your way, it's enough just to cover ground, it's enough to be moving on. Home, build it behind your eyes, carry it in your heart, safe among your own. They brought her back on a Friday night, same day I was born. We sent her up the smokestack, yes, and back into the storm. She blew up over the San Juan Mountains, she spent herself at last. The threat of heavy weather, that was what she knew best. Oh, it's enough to be on your way, it's enough to cover ground, it's enough to be moving on. Home, build it behind your eyes, carry it in your heart, safe among your own. It woke me up on a Sunday, an hour before the sun. It had me watching the headlights out on highway 591. Till I stepped into my trousers, till I pulled my big boots on, I walked out on the Mesa and I stumbled on this song Oh, it's enough to be on your way, it's enough just to cover ground, it's enough to be moving on. Home, build it behind your eyes, carry it in your heart, safe among your own. So long, old gal. |
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